Emory Shares Two Cool Tattoos

I met Emory last month at the 35th Annual Coney Island Mermaid Parade (@mermaidparade). She shared this cool tattoo:For those of you unfamiliar with the Kentile Floors sign, this was a highly visible landmark perched high over the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn.Louie Ozomek (@louiescustomtattooing) at Hand of Glory Tattoo (@handofglorytattoo) in Brooklyn did a nice job replicating the sign on Emory’ biceps.The sign was dismantled in 2014, …

Lauren Shares Dylan at the Coney Island Mermaid Parade

Earlier this month, at the Coney Island Mermaid Parade (@mermaidparade), I met Lauren, who was kind enough to share this cool tattoo with us:Lauren explained that this tattoo is a “conceptual representation” her son Dylan. The name Dylan means “from the sea.”She had this done at the Wildwood Tattoo Beach Bash by artist Jake Punzalan (@jakepunz), who is the owner-operator of Veritas Tattoo (@veritas_tattoo) in Hartford, Connecticut.Incidentally, Lauren (@laurenhadams) is a photographer, whose work can be seen here.Thanks to Lauren for sharing her tattoo with…

Lauren’s Floral Tattoo, with a Bluebird

At the Coney Island Mermaid Parade in June, I met Lauren, who was parading with a squadron of Roller Derby women.She let me take this photo of her cool tattoo and promised to email me with details.Her Roller Derby name was “Laurena Bob-it” and she credited this to Kati Vaughn from Magic Cobra Tattoo Society in Brooklyn.I don’t have any further details, but maybe one day, Lauren will find my card and email …

Coney Denizen and Her Dick: Our First NSFW Tattoo

In the eight years of Tattoosday’s existence, we have never featured an NSFW tattoo, so it’s really about time, don’t you think? Especially since it’s Labor Day, when no one is supposed to be at work, anyway.I met Mary at the Mermaid Parade in June and immediately asked if I could take a picture of this phallic tattoo on the back of her arm:Mary is an artist that uses the moniker Coney Denizen (click through for Flickr photostream).She initially told me that…

A Rendition of Erin, at the Coney Island Mermaid Parade

With summer ending this week, I want to celebrate with one last tattoo from June’s Mermaid Parade on Coney Island:I met Erin at the end of the parade on the boardwalk:You may notice the colorful tattoo on her upper left arm:Erin explained that this piece was conceived by a friend of hers who works for the designer Ana Sui.This is a rendition of Erin, in the spirit of Ana Sui’s style. The phrase “Sans la musique, je n’existe,…